LastFMNowPlaying

A dumb/quick module to get current playing track

Notes:

Dumb loop fetch of user.getRecentTracks you will need a API key from Last.fm

Uses node-fetch to make the request.

Example usage:

var lfmnp = require('QuickLastFMNowPlaying');

var c = new lfmnp.QuickLastFMNowPlaying({
    api_key: some_apikey,
    user: some_lastFM_username
});

c.on('error', function(e) {
    console.error(e);
}).on('warning', function(e) {
    console.error('Got a', e.code, e.body);
}).on('song', function(s) {
    console.log('song', s.name, 'by', s.artist['#text']);
}).on('always', function(s) {
    console.log('always', s);
})

Options

api_key - string, required, you need a API Key in order to poll Last.fm
user - string, required, the username to fetch songs for,
poll_time - int, optional, default 10000 - time between polls in MS
nowplaying_only - boolean, optional, default false, if true only return a song event if the current song is actually playing
user_agent - override the default useragent, helps ID your calls to LastFM in the event of a problem

Events

error - percolates an error if request gets one, or an error with the response, passed the error
always - emits the whole response of user.getrecenttracks
song - the song changed, returns the first track object
nochange - the poll completed, but the song didn't change, nothing is passed
warning - non 200 call from the API, either Last.fm tripped, or you are polling to quick and hit a rate limit. passes an object containting the HTTP Code as code and the body response

Change Log

v1.1.0

Swapped from Got to Node Fetch And a Rename to QuickLastFMNowPlaying